NIPC Law

UK Supreme Court By Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52871829   Jane Lambert Supreme Court ( Lords Reed (President), Lloyd-Jones, Kitchin, Hamblin and Burrows)  SkyKick UK Ltd and another  v Sky Ltd and others (Rev1) [2024] UKSC 36 (13 Nov2024) This was an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in  Sky Ltd and others v Skykick, UK Ltd and another (Rev2) [2021] EWCA Civ 1121 (26 July 2021) which I discussed in The Appeal - Sky v Skykick   on 10 Sept 2021. It was heard by Lords Reed, Lloyd-Jones, Kitchin, Hamblin and Burrows on 28 and 29 June 2023. Judgment allowing the appeal in part was handed down on 13 Nov 2024 (see SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and ot hers (Rev1) [2024] UKSC 36 (13 Nov 2024)).  While waiting for judgment to be delivered the parties settled their differences. The appellants applied with the respondents' agreement for leave to withdraw their appeal and the parties aske...

Author Sadarama   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Oma strickt Strümpfe (Grandmother knits stockings)   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Crafts Group LLC v Indeutsch International and another [2023] EWHC 1455 (IPEC) (16 June 2023) This was an application by Indeutsch International and Knitpro International for a stay of claims that had been brought against them in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court by the Crafts Group LLC to abide the outcome of cancellation proceedings in the EU Intellectual Property Office.   The application was based on art 132 (1) of   Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (codification)(Text with EEA relevance. ) OJ L 154, 16.6.2017, p. 1–99 ("the EU Trade Mark Regulation")  and CPR 3.1 (2) (f) . The Litigation On 11 Dec 2020 Crafts Group LLC issued proceedings agai...

Great Hall of the People Chongqing Author flyerletian Licence  CCO 1.0   Soutce Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Peter Jackson, Arnold and Phillips) Nokia Technologies OY and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd and others [2022] EWCA Civ 947 (11 July 2022) This was an appeal from the judgment of HH Judge Hacon sitting as a judge of the High Court in  Nokia Technologies OY and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd and other s (Rev1) [2021] EWHC 2952 (Pat) (4 Nov 2021) which I discussed in  FRAND - Nokia Technologies v Oneplus Technology   on 25 April 2022.  Readers will recall that the learned judge refused an application to set aside service of patent infringement proceedings on defendants that had been incorporated in China and to stay the action against the defendants that had been incorporated here to abide the outcome of proceedings in China to determine the terms of a FRAND licence for the...